Nobel laureate, Venezuela opposition leader Machado returns after exile

File photo: In this photo released by Vente Venezuela Press Office, Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado greets supporters at a church in Barquisimeto, Venezuela Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado returned to Venezuela on Sunday after nearly a year in exile. Her team confirmed her return, in a move likely to increase pressure on interim president Delcy Rodríguez as the country’s political future remains uncertain.“I am here. With you,” Machado wrote in Spanish on X, without disclosing how she had re-entered the country or providing details of her whereabouts.Her close ally, exiled opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia, also confirmed her return in a social media post. “Venezuela! I am thrilled to announce to you that our leader, my dear María Corina, is on Venezuelan soil,” he wrote, adding that he would return soon.Machado was later seen at a church in Barquisimeto, the capital of Lara state, about 220 miles west of Caracas. Footage and photographs published by news organisations showed supporters greeting and embracing her during a religious ceremony at the Sanctuary of the Divine Shepherdess.Machado’s exileMachado l...